Keeping it simple - Cornish Hake with Vichy carrot.

Fillet of Cornish Hake on a bed of Vichy carrot.

Choose your favourite veg to accompany some fine Cornish hake, and along with a handful of new pots provide some real colour with a bed of Vichy carrot - thickly sliced carrot, barely covered in salted water and simmered until the water is almost gone - add a knob of butter and a teaspoon of sugar to create a glaze - season.

It's true, every cloud has a silver lining!

Taken at 0745 on Saturday October 1st, Penzance Promenade looking North West.

With some unusual weather hitting our shores during late summer and autumn some rare cloud formations have been recorded. Variations on the Undulatus type cloud have appeared on a number of occasions and caught on camera for the benefit of TTG readers.........

Taken at 0630 August 21st looking South East across Newlyn Harbour

a shot taken overlooking the harbour at the same time as this features the only recently idfentified cloud type Astrolatus Undulatus - named for the first time in 2009! One photo from the mornings pictures was entered for this month's Nikon inFrame competition and is now in the final four! - please check out the photo and cast your vote in support of these rare clouds seen over Newlyn!

Vote for Newlyn in the Nikon inFrame 'Weather' photo competition and win a Nikon Coolpix s9100.  

http://inframe.nikoncompetition.co.uk/Vote.aspx?id=02&country=uk

The advantages of a computerised fish auction.

Across the Channel, Yan Giron a technical advsior and consultant to the French and Breton fishing industry has just published a short video which demonstrates the power of a computerised fish auction in today's technologically advanced world. A world where buyers from all over the EU can bid live online at a number of auctions. As yet, Newlyn shows no signs of having such a system installed in order to compete with other markets like Plymouth, where an ever increasing amount of Newlyn fish is being sold - when the Louisa N, the latest beamer to join the Nowell's fleet, begins to land her fish there that will mean approaching £2.5million pounds worth of fish will not be passing across the market floor in the foreseeable future from their boats alone.

Director or Peche Fraiche, Yan Giron coined the term FLUXCRIEE (in English, Flux in Fish Auction) to identify his consultancy activities in favour of fish auctions providing technical assistance, diagnostics, information and communication management, improvement of logistics, first-sales market places monitoring and management of technical staff. You will discover his activities in the video.

FLUXCRIEE has been developed little by little, thanks to Yan's various efforts to support  fish auctions. These were in relation to various types of fish auctions, various sizes, coastal fishing activities and offshore fleets.

Peche Fraiche is an advisory and technical consultancy service available to all EU customers - more information on the bi-lingual site can be found here.

Mighty misty Monday morn!

All smiles on the door of the Hotel Artist in Residence........

down in Penzance wet dock the latest beaamer to join the Nowell fleet, the Louisa N is almost ready for her first trip under her new name and number........

the view across the Bay is not so good this morning.......

as the end of season yachts wait for the dock gate to lower.........

along with the Penzance Harbour Towing vessel..........

there's an empty berth in the dry dock at the moment.......

and one of the harbour slipways leads nowhere it seems.

Saturday morning.

 Early start for Lentern's the butchers, looks like Farrow and Ball did a good deal......

 one of the few tobacconists left........

 minutes after the sun comes up over the back of the Mount.......

 at this time of year thousands of twitchers head for the Ilses of Scilly......

 the menu at the Poolside Cafe reflects seasonal fish with squid and haddock.......

 and with a mini-heatwave forecast perhaps the Jubilee Pool ought to be open over the weekend?.......

 they left their mark on the prom........ 

 those gloves get everywhere........

on course.........

 it's a busy morning in the Bay, as a Battery Rocks' swimmer contemplates the not so warm waters........

along the sea front not only the buildings are........

under another interesting cloud formation.........

what price safety at sea?..........

the boys on the Ajax have coined new phrase to describe their working life!.........

 time to fuel up and get the new nets aboard.......

 wanted aboard the Wayfarer, a gardener with marine experience.........

liking those punt men who like to keep their gear spotless......

number 7 on the Newlyn trail could do with a visit as well.......

further up Old Paul Hill and opening its doors for the first time in September, Newlyn School of Art......

sees Sam Basset (a local artist whose father just so happens to be the harbourmaster at St Ives) takes the first of his Experimental Drawing classes - the morning light in the studio is fantastic!

After the aglio olio pepreroncino the veale steak

Sicilian night- swordfish and the rest!